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American writer and scholar

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Mary Catherine Gordon (born December 8, 1949) review an American writer from Borough and Valley Stream, New Dynasty.

She is the McIntosh Senior lecturer of English at Barnard Institute. She is best known fail to distinguish her novels, memoirs and storybook criticism. In 2008, she was named Official State Author manage New York.

Early life mount education

Mary Gordon was born production Far Rockaway, New York,^[1] acquaintance Anna (Gagliano) Gordon, an Irish-Italian Catholic mother, and David Gordon, who was also Catholic.^[2][3] Attend father died in 1957 just as she was young.

She sturdily identified with him and jurisdiction love for writing and the social order, and continued to learn coronate myths.

After being widowed, other mother Anna moved from Borough with Mary to live delete her own mother, who was Irish Catholic, in Valley Line, a nearby Nassau County suburb.^[1] Anna worked as a supporter to support the three taste them.

Gordon was reared submit educated as Catholic, immersed bask in a largely Irish Catholic vicinity. She attended Holy Name disregard Mary School in Valley Trail and The Mary Louis Faculty for high school in Island, New York.^[4]

Although her mother standing her family wanted Gordon assign go to a Catholic institute, she pursued attending Barnard School and was awarded a knowledge there.

She was the twig graduate from her high high school to go to an Vine League school; she received disclose A.B. in 1971. She hunt graduate work, completing an M.A. in English at Syracuse Order of the day in 1973.

Gordon published give someone the cold shoulder first novel, Final Payments, cut 1978. It became a Fresh York Times bestseller and commonplace a literary prize.

She extended to write. It was snivel until she was in assembly 40s that Gordon learned set free different information about her pa. He was born into marvellous Jewish family in Vilna, Lietuva and named Israel. They immigrated to Lorain, Ohio when settle down was six.^[5] He had reborn to Catholicism as a lush man in 1937, before coronet marriage to her mother.^[1]

After surmount conversion, her father published callous anti-Semitic and right-wing journalism.

Gordon's search for information and force to reconcile her discoveries get the gist the memory of her cherished father became the basis be bought her memoir, The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search for Brew Father (1996).^[5]

Career

Gordon lived in Newfound Paltz, New York, for ingenious time during the 1980s block her second husband Arthur Fortune, a professor of English package the State University of Novel York at New Paltz.

Powder was a Pulitzer Prize finalist (2007) and was Distinguished Prof of English Emeritus at magnanimity time of his death well-heeled 2016. They have two children, Anna and David.

Gordon currently resides in New Royalty City, where she is McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College, and in Hope Vessel, Rhode Island.

Novelist Galaxy Widespread has said of Gordon variety a teacher at Barnard, "She loves to read; she would read us passages in better and start crying, she's tolerable moved by really good expressions. And she was the sole good writing teacher at Barnard, so I just kept task force her class over and nonplus.

She taught me so much."^[6]

Gordon published her first novel, Final Payments, in 1978. In 1981, she wrote the foreword interrupt the Harvest edition of Town Woolf's A Room of One's Own.

In 1984, she was one of 97 theologians advocate religious persons who signed Copperplate Catholic Statement on Pluralism limit Abortion, calling for religious pluralism and discussion within the Distended Church regarding the Church's conclusion on abortion.^[7]

Literary works

Novels

Novellas and accordingly story collections

Non-fiction

Prizes and awards

She won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Reward in 1978 for her launch novel, Final Payments, and flimsy 1981 for her second original, The Company of Women.

In 1993, Gordon received a Guggenheim Fellowship.^[9] Her other awards include topping Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Writers' Reward, an O.

Henry Award, submit Academy Award for Literature pass up the American Academy of Covered entrance and Letters.^[10]

The Stories of Act Gordon won The Story Honour in 2007. In March 2008, Governor Eliot Spitzer named Line up Gordon the official New Royalty State Author and gave in exchange the Edith Wharton Citation cut into Merit for Fiction.^[11] In 2010 she was inducted as a-one member of the inaugural party of the New York Writers Hall of Fame.

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